Thermodynamic Split Conjecture and an Observational Test for Cosmological EntropyWe revisit string theoretic derivations of black hole entropy and argue that their enabling structures do not persist in realistic cosmologies. We formalize this as the Thermodynamic Split Conjecture…Oem Trivedi·Sep 17, 2025SaveLearn
Detector-based measurement-induced state updates in AdS/CFTConventional understandings of quantum theory hold that measurements change the state of an observed system following the Lüders update rule. Textbooks describe the application of this idea to…Vijay Balasubramanian, Esko Keski-Vakkuri, Nicola Pranzini·Sep 16, 2025SaveLearn
Statistics of Base Polytopes in F-theoryWe propose a new statistical ensemble of toric bases for elliptic Calabi-Yaus used in F-theory models, by focusing on only the convex hull of the base, i.e., the base polytope. This physically…Washington Taylor, Yi-Nan Wang, Yihang Yu·Sep 16, 2025SaveLearn
Sigma model renormalisation group flows, singularities and some remarks on cosmologyWe investigate the properties of the renormalisation group (RG) flow of two-dimensional sigma models with a generic metric coupling by utilising known results for the Ricci flow. We point out that on…Georgios Papadopoulos·Sep 16, 2025SaveLearn
2-Split of Form Factors via BCFW Recursion RelationRecently, Cao:2025hio demonstrated the 2-split for form factor under specific kinematic constraints. This factorization is analogous to that observed in scattering amplitudes. A key…Liang Zhang·Sep 16, 2025SaveLearn
Hawking-Page transition in anti-de Sitter massive gravity with non-compact spatial boundaryIn gauge/gravity duality, the Hawking Page (HP) process plays the important role of representing a confined/deconfined phase transition. For spaces that are asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) with…Nelson R. F. Braga, William S. Cunha·Sep 16, 2025SaveLearn
Categorical Continuous SymmetryWe define the symmetry category in 1+1d for continuous 0-form G-symmetry to be Skyτ(G), the category of skyscraper sheaves of finite dimensional vector spaces with finite support on the…Qiang Jia, Ran Luo, Jiahua Tian et al.·Sep 16, 2025SaveLearn
Bubbles in AdSWe investigate loop corrections to the four-point function of identical scalar operators in a four-dimensional large N conformal field theory, holographically dual to AdS with a quartic…Agnese Bissi, Giulia Fardelli, Mohammad Reza Khansari·Sep 16, 2025SaveLearn
Symmetry-Resolved Spread ComplexityIn this work, we investigate the impact of conserved charges on the dynamics of spread complexity of quantum states. Building on the notion of symmetry-resolved Krylov complexity [1], we extend the…Pawel Caputa, Giuseppe Di Giulio, Tran Quang Loc·Sep 16, 2025SaveLearn
Entanglement Entropy in Jackiw-Teitelboim de Sitter gravity with Timelike BoundariesThe consideration of timelike boundaries in de Sitter static patches has a broad motivation, such as the formulation of a well-defined canonical ensemble and the realization of a natural framework…Timofei Rusalev·Sep 16, 2025SaveLearn
T-dualities and scale-separated AdS3 in type IWe perform three T-dualities on previously found, classical N=1 scale-separated AdS3 solutions of massive type IIA supergravity. These solutions arose from a compactification on a…Zheng Miao, Muthusamy Rajaguru, George Tringas et al.·Sep 16, 2025SaveLearn
Superluminal Liouville walls in 2d String Theory and space-like singularitiesAn interesting class of time dependent backgrounds in 1+1 dimensional string theory involves worldsheet Liouville walls which move in (target space) time. When a parameter in such a background…Sumit R. Das, Shaun D. Hampton, Sinong Liu·Sep 16, 2025SaveLearn
Trombone gaugings of five-dimensional maximal supergravityThe maximal gauged supergravities in five spacetime dimensions with gauge groups contained in R+ × E6(6) are described. The E6(6) factor is the duality…Oscar Varela·Sep 15, 2025SaveLearn
TT and root-TT deformations in four-dimensional Chern-Simons theoryThe four-dimensional Chern-Simons (CS) theory provides a systematic procedure for realizing two-dimensional integrable field theories. It is therefore a natural question to ask whether integrable…Jun-ichi Sakamoto, Roberto Tateo, Masahito Yamazaki·Sep 15, 2025SaveLearn
Super Covering MapsWe define analytic maps between super Riemann surfaces which extend the notion of branched covering maps to a supersymmetric setting. We show that these super covering maps appear naturally both in…Beat Nairz·Sep 15, 2025SaveLearn
Generalized Symmetries and Deformations of Symmetric Product OrbifoldsWe construct generalized symmetries in two-dimensional symmetric product orbifold CFTs SymN(T), for a generic seed CFT T. These symmetries are more general than the…Nathan Benjamin, Suzanne Bintanja, Yu-Jui Chen et al.·Sep 15, 2025SaveLearn
QEDtool: A Python package for numerical quantum information in quantum electrodynamicsThis is the manual of the first version of QEDtool, an object-oriented Python package that performs numerical quantum electrodynamics calculations, with focus on full state reconstruction in the…Jesse Smeets, Preslav Asenov, Alessio Serafini·Sep 15, 2025SaveLearn
Quantum Effects for Black Holes with On-Shell AmplitudesWe develop a framework based on modern amplitude techniques to analyze emission and absorption effects in black hole physics, including Hawking radiation. We first discuss quantum field theory on a…Katsuki Aoki, Andrea Cristofoli, Hyun Jeong et al.·Sep 15, 2025SaveLearn
Method of regions for dual conformal integralsWe apply the method of regions to the evaluation of dual conformal integrals with small off-shellness. In contrast to conventional approach, where the separation of regions is performed via…Leonid V. Bork, Roman N. Lee, Andrei I. Onishchenko·Sep 15, 2025SaveLearn
On the K-point in moduli spaceWe study a class of infinite-distance loci, referred to as K-points, in one-parameter complex-structure moduli spaces of type IIB string theory compactified on Calabi-Yau manifolds. We show that…Jarod Hattab, Eran Palti, Joan Quirant·Sep 15, 2025SaveLearn
Cosmological FLRW phase transitions under exponential corrected entropyThis work considers how exponential corrections to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula affect the thermodynamic behavior of the FLRW cosmological model. These corrections drastically change the…Rodrigo Rivadeneira-Caro, Joel F. Saavedra, Francisco Tello-Ortiz·Sep 15, 2025SaveLearn
A Note on the Feynman Lectures on GravitationFollowing Feynman's lectures on gravitation, we consider the theory of the gravitational (massless spin-2) field in flat spacetime and present the third- and fourth-order Lagrangian densities for…Satoshi Nakajima·Sep 15, 2025SaveLearn
Higher genus twistor spaces and the celestial torusThis paper studies novel four-dimensional integrable field theories that are deformations of self-dual Yang-Mills. They are engineered by considering holomorphic Chern-Simons and BF type theories on…Seraphim Jarov·Sep 15, 2025SaveLearn
On a long exact sequence of groups of equivalence classes of 2d N=(0,1) SQFTsStrongly motivated by a mathematical result by Lin and Yamashita (arXiv:2412.02298), we describe a long exact sequence formed by groups of equivalence classes of two-dimensional N=(0,1)…Yuji Tachikawa·Sep 15, 2025SaveLearn
Phases of 2d Gauge Theories and Symmetric Mass GenerationWe study the dynamics and phase structure of Abelian gauge theories in d=1+1 dimensions. These include U(1) gauge theory coupled to a scalar and a fermion, as well as the two-flavour Schwinger…Rishi Mouland, David Tong, Bernardo Zan·Sep 15, 2025SaveLearn